Royce Embanks
Born in Kalispell, Montana, Royce moved with his family to Oregon at age 4, settling in Bandon. Fascinated by animals at an early age, he spent hours sculpting animals and people in clay during those long rainy days on the Oregon Coast. In school, he began exploring with pencil drawing, cartoons, painting designs for cars, and painting with oils at age 16.
Early in the 1980’s Royce attended a meeting of Western Woodcarvers in Portland, seeing his first, hand-carved and painted decorative decoys. Craig Strand, a local Portland carver, encouraged his work through Feather and Quill wood carving club.
Member of:
- Feather and Quill
- Coastal Carvers
- Western Woodcarvers
- High Desert Carvers
- National Fish Carvers Guild – Charter Member
- Internationall Wildfowl Carving Assn.
Exhibited in galleries:
- Seaside
- Crown Point
- Prineville
- Madras
- Silverton
- Bandon
- Flagstaff, AZ
Shown/Competed in shows
- Wild Birds in Wood, Portland
- Brant Festival, Parksville, B.C
- Pacific Flyway, Sacramento
- California Open, San Diego
- Columbia Flyway, Portland
- World Fish Carvers, Reno
- Coastal Carvers, Lincoln City
- Sportsman’s Show, Deschutes Co.
- California Open, San Diego
- Migratory Bird Festival, Burns
- Lincoln City Audubon
- Wallowa Mtn. Arts Festival, Joseph
In 1989 he completed a full-sized Bald Eagle for Linfield College, Portland Campus.
Royce and two friends (Sharon and Tom Miller) have a studio in Madras, “Studio on 5th”, where they conduct classes, carve, display their art work and encourage other artists in the central Oregon area to explore various mediums for art. They have established the High Desert Carvers, a group which meets bi-monthly.